Hard hearts difficult to crack?

The Bible teaches us not to harden our hearts...

Hebrews 3: 7-8, " So, as the Holy Spirit says: 

   "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts "

Psalm 95:8, "do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, 

       as you did that day at Massah in the desert,"

For hard hearts are difficult to crack...they hardly understand the feelings of others and don't easily break down in compassion for the lost and suffering.

Hardheartedness keeps one from seeing their need for Jesus and Godly wisdom.

God's word cannot take root in a hard heart. It has to be plowed & softened to sow.

Jere 4:3-4,"This is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: 

       "Break up your unplowed ground 

       and do not sow among thorns. "

    ⁴ Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, 

       circumcise your hearts, 

       you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem, "

God's Word is not understood and believed!

John 12:39-40, " ³⁹For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:"He has blinded their eyes 

      and deadened their hearts, 

   so they can neither see with their eyes, 

      nor understand with their hearts, 

      nor turn—and I would heal them."

So let's pray the Lord softens hearts, make it pliable and receptive to His Word and to feel the hurt, pain and understand the feelings of those around.

In Exodus we see Pharaoh's heart was hardened that he refused to see the suffering the Israelites went through.

God's looking for a broken and contrite heart.

Psalm 51:17, " The sacrifices of God are  a broken spirit; 

       a broken and contrite heart, 

       O God, you will not despise."

"Lord please help our Hearts to be always soft, plyable and receptive."

YSIC,

Julia